This research aims at shedding empirical light on the relative efficiency of small-scale maize producers in Romania. Farmers in transition countries still face heavily distorted price systems resulting from imperfect market conditions and socioeconomic and institutional constraints. To capture...

A mobilisation of research, knowledge transfer and innovation to deal with the current challenges as raising world food demand while protecting natural resources is a priority area of the EU. The effective knowledge transfer and innovation activities in the agri-food supply chain may push all...

In the course of economic development there is a general downward trend of agricultural employment. In the EU-15, agricultural employment decreased by 2.3% p.a. (measured in regular persons) and 3.0% p.a. (measured in annual working units) between 1995 and 2000. In some of the new EU Member...

In einer Studie wurden die volkswirtschaftlichen Kosten verschiedener Produktionsverfahren und Szenarien der Strom- und Wärmeproduktion aus Biogas auf der Basis von Mais und Rindergülle untersucht. Gemessen an alternativen Maßnahmen, verursacht die staatliche Förderung der...